A Letter
TO CELIA’NOR
IUDICIUM ACCEDIT
Issued by
THE COVENANT
on this 1st of the Amber Cold
ELVES OF CELIA’NOR,
The banners of war stream above Aevos once more, and your own star-blazoned standard is among them.
Breakwater Keep, the flagship fortress of Veletz, has fallen, and the splintered stones mark the funeral shrouds of many Celia’norian Elves. These Elves did not have to be there, and they most certainly did not have to perish, either at Breakwater, nor the Covenant victory of Whitespire, where Celia’nor rallied to aid Veletz in the act of murdering one of their own allies. We grieve to set our blades to Elven flesh, for our quarrel with Celia’nor is naught, as it ever was. Throughout the long histories of our peoples, we have coexisted in relative peace and with minimal interference, and we affirm there is little need for this to change.
We therefore impart unto you these truths:
There is nothing for you to gain in a war in the Heartlands.
There is nothing for you to gain by supporting a tyrannical state.
There is nothing for you to gain by opposing the Covenant.
Return home to your fledgling lands. Tend to your people who grow disheartened at a war that is not theirs to fight. Grow your realm anew, back into the titan of the west it once was upon Almaris. The Covenant guarantees entirely your neutrality and that no retribution shall be invoked if Celia’norian forces are permanently withdrawn from the Heartlands.
This is no threat -- this is a plea to reason, and an appeal for wellbeing.
Return home, and let all grievances between us be forgotten. Return home, and let us endure together.
When the Covenant advances upon the League of Veletz, we will look for the banner of Celia’nor.
If we find it on the field, our next campaign shall be in your lands, and every star shall be expunged from the night sky.
T H I S I S O U R P E A C E .
HIS ROYAL MAJESTY, Aleksandr II, by the Grace of Godan, King of Hanseti and Ruska, Grand Hetman of the Army, Hochmeister of the Order of the Crow, Prince of Bihar, Dules, Lahy, Muldav, Slesvik, Solvesborg, and Ulgaard, Duke of Carnatia, and Vanaheim, Margrave of Korstadt, Rothswald, and Vasiland, Count of Alban, Alimar, Baranya, Graiswald, Karikhov, Karovia, Kaunas, Kavat, Kovachgrad, Kvasz, Markev, Nenzing, Siegrad, Torun, Toruv, Valdev, and Werdenburg, Viscount of Varna, Baron of Astfield, Buck, Esenstadt, Kraken’s Watch, Kralta, Krepost, Lorentz, and Rytsburg, Lord of the Westfolk, Protector and Lord of the Highlanders, etcetera.
HIS ROYAL MAJESTY, Adrian I, by the Grace of GOD, King of Balian, Viscount of Pompourelia, Eflen and Anatis, Baron of Brucca,Valens, Malenos, Goza and Ciavola, Lord of Portoregne, Atrus and Monterosa, Warden of La Costa Rubinissima, Prince of the Holy Orenian Empire, Protector of the Heartlanders and the South, etcetera.
HIS HIGHNESS, Cesar II de Pelear, Viceroy of Hyspia, Duke of Pacazu, Baron of Arenisca and Del’mar, Lord of La Dorada, Lord of Niseep, Gereon's Hold, and Ciudad de Plata, Protector of the Hyspian People, Patriarch of House de Pelear.
HER MAJESTY, Catherine I, Queen of the Commonwealth of the Petra, Marquise de Val d’Estenou, Countess of Temesch and Moere, Baroness of Garmont, Valfleur, Vallagne-en-Petra, Artois, and of the Phoenixspire, Protector of the Meadows.
HIS GRANDNESS, Garedyn The Emerald, Grand King of Urguan, Chief of the Mossborn, Seer of Hefrumm, Zealot of the Triad. HIS ROYAL MAJESTY, John Alexander, by the Grace of GOD, King of Aaun, Prince of Alstion, Duke of Corazon and Balemena, Count of Enswerp and Florentine, Protector of the Realm HER ROYAL MAJESTY, Tar-Caraneth Aryantë of the House Arthalion, by the Grace of GOD, Queen of the Númenedain, Princess of Númenost and Minas Amath, Protector of the Adunians, Master of the Sharadûn, Templar of the Archangel Michael, Knight of the Realm Ordained by the High Hearth before His most Sacred Flame, Ellenore Eiriksson, High Keeper of the Sacred Flame, Master of the Order of the First Flame, Righteous Servant of the RED-LORD, Loyal Adherent to the Ashen Way